Sr. Hardware Technical Program Manager

Fresh Consulting is seeking an experienced Sr. Technical Program Manager (TPM) who believes that a problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. That's why Fresh Consulting enables our clients to design and deliver creative innovative products and solutions that help create opportunities for everyone. As a Technical Program Manager at Fresh Consulting, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary hardware and software engineering projects utilizing your engineering expertise. You will collaborate with external clients to understand the problem/opportunity space, define requirements, and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. The successful candidate is equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers. Using your extensive technical and project delivery leadership expertise, you will manage projects of various sizes and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes, and driving the technical directions of your programs.

Who we are:
Fresh Consulting is a design-led, hardware, AI, robotics, and software development company, offering end-to-end technological services to help companies innovate. We bring together amazing UX designers, sophisticated developers, digital strategists, and top-notch hardware engineers to help companies create fresh experiences that connect humans, systems, and machines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in the framing, scoping, and support of technical Projects and Programs that may consist of a variety of innovative hardware, AI, robotics, and software project(s)/program(s).
• Ensure the successful implementation of the Fresh PMO’s strategy, responsibilities, services, and deliverables. Define and embed project controls and governance in every project and program.
• Provide and maintain a capacity planning and resource tracking service across our suite of Programs. Oversee project costs, and ensure project and program finances are well managed.
• Define and embed project controls and governance in every technical project and program.
• Provide Project planning, Milestone management, Scope management, and Resource forecasting.
• Proven track record of planning, executing, controlling, and closing technical projects and programs with the ability to manage a program of projects and their dependencies simultaneously.
• Ensure the projects within a program are successfully executed on time, on budget, and in scope while achieving quality by actively managing scope, schedule, resources, and risks.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to understand or identify defined work problems and program goals, obtain prioritized deliverables, and discuss program impact.
• Understand, and translate external stakeholders' needs into program goals and prioritized deliverables and contribute to decisions on prioritizing goals and deliverables.
• Review key Program and Project health metrics pertaining, monitor potential metric deviations and define corrective actions for critical deviations.
• Ensures that all non-functional requirements (such as reliability, scalability, and security) are documented, incorporated into plans, tracked, and executed appropriately.
• Partners with stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Is perceived as a credible, strong leader, able to influence and educate at all levels of the organization to achieve strategy-aligned outcomes.
• Sets expectations with external and internal stakeholders, team members, and leaders.
• Work collaboratively to ensure end-to-end solutions are aligned with enterprise strategy, architectural standards, and practices.
• Develops comprehensive solution plans and articulates their dependencies, tradeoffs, risks, and merits to all stakeholders.
• Strong Project/Program Management skills and experience. Holds others accountable to drive programs/projects to successful execution, agreed-upon outcomes, and builds strong dynamic teams.
• Coordinates requirements and deliverables across multiple teams, helping to resolve conflicts, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs and ensuring teams understand broad, architecture and enterprise-level priorities and how that affects sequencing.
• Communicates frequently and capably with a diverse audience, tailoring channel and message depending on needs and desired outcomes. Is influential and can drive change.
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured business and technical problems and situations.
• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• To build trust, initiate and lead candid conversations with teams, clients, and stakeholders.
• Provide high-touch and